Community-acquired pneumonia: recent guidelines for therapy.

Community-acquired pneumonia: recent guidelines for therapy.

File T M Jr

Journal of Respiratory Diseases

1999

1999-08

The Infectious Diseases Society of America advocates using pathogen-directed therapy whenever possible to help reduce the emergence of drug resistance. Options for empiric therapy for outpatients include a macrolide, a new fluoroquinolone with enhanced activity against Streptococcus pneumoniae, and doxycycline. A newer fluoroquinolone is an appropriate option when drug-resistant S pneumoniae is a concern. For patients requiring hospitalization in a general ward, the preferred options are a beta-lactam plus a macrolide or a new fluoroquinolone with activity against S pneumoniae.

Pneumonia – Drug Therapy; Community-Acquired Infections – Drug Therapy; Pneumonia – Microbiology; Community-Acquired Infections – Microbiology

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